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False Figures
'WHEN Mr. George Ernest White VI' appealed to the Transport Tribunal last week against the West Midland Licensing Authority's refusal to add two vehicles to his licence, he did not complete the presentation of his case after a full day's hearing. The appeal was adjourned until December 11.
Respondents were the British Transport Commission, White's Removals and Transport, Ltd., Frank Grounds, Ltd., Mousell (Birmingham), Ltd., A. G. Harris, Ltd., and three others.
Mr. White alleged that figures of vehicle availability put in on behalf of White's Removals were " entirely false," and claimed that in several cases the customers he turned away were also refused by White's Removals, although this company's figures showed vehicles available on the relevant dates.
Mr. N. L. C. Macaskie, Q.C., acting president, interposed: "I don't see this evidence helps you, Mr. White. The evidence is that White's Removals had vehicles available which were not used."
A LICENCE FOR CONTRACT-A VEHICLES IN a reserved decision, the Yorkshire I Licensing Authority has authorized Key Transport and Warehousing Co.. Ltd., Hull, to transfer eight 3-ton vehicles from a contract-A to an A licence.
At the hearing (The C'orntnercitil Motor, October 26) the British Transport Commission submitted that the application was founded on the needs of associated companies, for whom 95 per cent. of the work would be done. They claimed that a B licence would be more appropriate.
The applicants' case was that the public interest would be better served by using the present vehicles more economically, rather than hy putting extra vehicles on the road.
WHAT CORROSION COSTS VEHICLE owners can reckon that V engine-valve corrosion costs them £2 10s. per 1,000 miles, and cylinder and piston corrosion an additional £2 5s. This was stated by Dr. W. H. J. Vernon when he addressed the Institution of Civil Engineers last week.
He advocated the establishment of a national centre for research into corrosion. Among design errors, he said. the most common was still that of coupling together dissimilar metals without regard to the possibilities of corrosion.
• LTC. OFFER ASSEMBLY POINTS
THE British Transport Commission have told the North-West Transport Users' Consultative Committee that they are prepared to.provide einergency assembly points, where train loads of goods for long journeys by rail could be made up during the -crisis. They suggested that operators could use their fuel allocation to take goods to These assembly points